NRL launches start-up initiative in Assam

Guwahati, Jul 4 (UNI) Numaligarh Refinery Ltd of Assam today launched its Start-up initiative, IDEATION 2017.
With its focus on prospective entrepreneurs from the North East, IDEATION seeks to foster an entrepreneurial culture in the region, selecting
promising ideas and assisting them to grow, in line with NRL’s Corporate Vision and Mission of providing an impetus to the development of the region.
The initiative is in line with the ambitious Start-up India Mission of Govt. of India which fosters to build a start-up ecosystem in the country.
The IDEATION launch function was attended by NRL MD P Padmanabhan; NRL Director (Finance) S K Barua, a host of luminaries in the field of
Start-up and hundreds of budding entrepreneurs representing academic institutions like IIT Guwahati, Assam Engineering College etc, entrepreneurs registered under MSME and local start up clusters viz. Assam Start-up and NE8X.
On this occasion, IDEATION website with url www.ideation.nrl.co.in was formally launched. The website other than featuring details of the scheme would also facilitate online submission of Start up ideas till August 15 next.
In a run up to the event, IDEATION Facebook page,‘nrlideation’ and Twitter handle ‘@nrlideation’ have gone live to reach out to its target audience and promote the initiative.
To carry forward the initiative, IDEATION 2017 contest has been announced for selection of innovative ideas in the domain of technology, product innovation and business process improvement. UNI SG AKM